Speaking of self promotion, @Jeremy Pepper, um... -- a friend of mine says myself and my world are one and the same thing! :D
So my #8 is:
8. It uses the Wisdom of the Language ( http://news.english.net.in/wisdom-of-the-language -- and see also http://www.quora.com/Is-quora-the-plural-of-quorum )
@StayClassy: This is my big question, too. I was also late to the game, but *someone* should definitely invest server $$$ into this (and the site management would do well to reduce the load on resources required as much as possible -- see also http://twitter.com/#!/nmw/status/24370338687098880 )

I'm late to the party on Quora (hey, it's not when you use it but how well you use it). I'll do some more in-depth analysis later, but after a few days of active use I see tons of potential. Here's why: 1. People will always desire to build their profiles off what they know. Quora does th...

Well, I think there's an intermediate step you skipped over in your argument -- I think you also have to acknowledge (according to Kant's definition of enlightenment) that a large percentage of twitter noobs are unenlightened (non-enlightened? -- whatever ;)
So perhaps the twitter noob community not only has no taste -- it also has no enlightenment (see also http://news.linked.in/1357/bias-quality-of-search-results-depends-most-of-all-on-the-user-community-of-users-making-the-evaluations ) ... and I would also argue that perhaps that is a characteristic also shared by some so-called journalists (as you have very well explicated) -- or whatever you might call such people who write stuff.... I really had to LOL over Gladwell not being able to define the term "social media" -- which means he spent an entire week writing an article about a topic that he did not even have the vaguest grasp of.
;D nmw